Motherboard giant Gigabyte contributed to a nerdtastic art piece put in place by authorities of the Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan, Gigabyte's home country. A hall inside gate B7 of terminal 1 at the airport sports a wall-hung art-piece made entirely of Gigabyte motherboards, consisting of two lines, and a circle. The circle, made of identical motherboards, looks like a silicon wafer, and from a distance, each motherboard looks like a chip die on that wafer. A map of the island is also carved out of a motherboard on that circle.

Next to it is a large "Made in Taiwan" sign, also made by Gigabyte motherboards. This art piece is said to be using more than 1,200 motherboards, which of course are dead, returned for replacement pieces. After years of war and poverty, Taiwan has emerged as a major hub of semiconductor and electronics industries, there are ongoing efforts such as this one to propagate Taiwan as a stable investment destination, and in a pretty geeky way, we might add.

RMA boards that are beyond repair are normally sent for component reclaimation. All working components that can be soldered out (such as capacitors, chokes, slots, connectors, port clusters), are salvaged.

skip to 0:49 - do note there is a little foul language but i have an irish cousin thats only about 6or7 years of age that does more cursing/swearing then i do in a year and i tend to do a lot of swearing

they could have melted the PCBs down and made some Lego out of it IMO - some of the best inventions ever were made out of lego first before being taken and put into full production. that way they would be putting back the seeds of innovation and dreams back into the community where the futures of technology gather around - playing in the sand pit and making some poor kid eat his crayons....